![[image]](/images/mediatype_image.gif) | Tropical Storm Isidore - SeaWiFS image courtesy the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
Tropical Storm Isidore is bringing heavy rains and high winds to the Louisiana Gulf Coast on September 25, 2002. Moving northward at roughly 12 miles per hour, Isidore is packing sustained winds of 65 miles per hour and is expected to bring upwards of 20 inches of rain to Louisiana. The eye of the storm is predicted to make landfall in the early morning hours of Sept. 26. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS.
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Rita Floods U.S. Gulf Coast - Image copyright .
Cameron, Louisiana, was perhaps the community hardest hit when Hurricane Rita came ashore on September 24, 2005. News reports say that nearly 90 percent of the structures in Cameron were damaged or completely destroyed in the winds and floods that Rita brought to southwestern and central Louisiana. Only the faint outline of streets remained under a blurry haze of water when the Ikonos satellite captured this image on September 25, 2005...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Tropical Storm Isidore - SeaWiFS image courtesy the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
Tropical Storm Isidore is bringing heavy rains and high winds to the Louisiana Gulf Coast on September 25, 2002. Moving northward at roughly 12 miles per hour, Isidore is packing sustained winds of 65 miles per hour and is expected to bring upwards of 20 inches of rain to Louisiana. The eye of the storm is predicted to make landfall in the early morning hours of Sept. 26. Sensor: No Satellite/ No Data.
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Lili - Terra MODIS data captured by direct broadcast at Louisiana State University and processed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Liam Gumley,
Hurricane Lili continues to gain strength and move northwestward toward the Gulf Coast. The center of Lili is located near 24.8 north longitude and 88.9 west latitude, or about 365 miles south-southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lili is moving towards the northwest near 15 mph with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph with higher gusts. This makes Lili a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Lili - Terra MODIS data captured by direct broadcast at Louisiana State University and processed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by Liam Gumley,
Hurricane Lili continues to gain strength and move northwestward toward the Gulf Coast. The center of Lili is located near 24.8 north longitude and 88.9 west latitude, or about 365 miles south-southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lili is moving towards the northwest near 15 mph with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph with higher gusts. This makes Lili a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Huge Storm Threatens Northern Gulf States
An animation of NOAA satellite observations from Aug. 31 at 10:45 a.m. EDT through Sept. 2 at 10:45 a.m. EDT shows the birth of Tropical Depression 13, now Tropical Storm Lee, south of the Louisiana coast. Tropical Storm Lee threatens the northern Gulf coast states with heavy rainfall all weekend. The GOES-13 cloud images are overlaid on a true-color NASA/MODIS map. Storm data comes from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Lili - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
This photo of hurricane Lili, captured during the Expedition Five mission, shows the compact storm system and the structure of its estimated 15 nautical mile wide eye. After strengthening to a Category 4 storm (125 knots with the central pressure of 940 millibars), Lili weakened to a Category 2 before slamming into the central coast of Louisiana just south of Lafayette. This is one of many photos that stem form the Crew Observation (CEO) experiment that has been a part of every Space Station exp...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Tropical Storm Isidore: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Tropical Storm Isidore is bringing heavy rains and high winds to the Louisiana Gulf Coast on September 25, 2002. Moving northward at roughly 12 miles per hour, Isidore is packing sustained winds of 65 miles per hour and is expected to bring upwards of 20 inches of rain to Louisiana. The eye of the storm is predicted to make landfall in the early morning hours of Sept. 26.SeaWiFS image courtesy the seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Rita Floods U.S. Gulf Coast: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Cameron, Louisiana, was perhaps the community hardest hit when Hurricane Rita came ashore on September 24, 2005. News reports say that nearly 90 percent of the structures in Cameron were damaged or completely destroyed in the winds and floods that Rita brought to southwestern and central Louisiana. Only the faint outline of streets remained under a blurry haze of water when the Ikonos satellite captured this image on September 25, 2005...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana
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| Red Tide Along Florida Panhandle - Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
SeaWiFS captured this view of red tide conditions along the Gulf coast of Florida and Louisiana. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 3/1/99.
Keywords: Where -- Florida; Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Claudette over the coast of Texas - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
On July 15, 2003 at 12:55 EDT, the (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s satellite captured this bird’s-eye view of Hurricane Claudette making landfall at Matagorda Bay on the middle Texas coast. At the time of this image Claudette was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph with slightly higher gusts, classifying the storm as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Claudette is expected to dump as much as 10 inches of rain in portions of Texas and Louisiana and produce storm surge...
Keywords: Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Smoke Plumes From Texas, Louisiana - Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
This SeaWiFS image shows smoke from wildfires along the Texas and Louisiana coast. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 9/5/00.
Keywords: Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Fires in Texas and Louisiana - Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
This SeaWiFS image shows a few large fires burning in Texas and Louisiana. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 2/4/00.
Keywords: Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Educator workshops - NASA/Stennis Space Center (NASA-SSC)
Numerous workshops are held each year through the NASA Educator Resource Center to help teachers and educators not only incorporate technology into their classroom, but also aid them in curriculum development. For information concerning workshop schedules, call 1-800-237-1821 in Louisiana and Mississippi or (601) 688-3338.
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Colorful Gulf Coast - Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
The Gulf Coast along Louisiana and the Mississippi delta are quite colorful with phytoplankton and sediment in this SeaWiFS image. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 12/14/98.
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Southeastern U.S. Smoke Plumes - Provided by the SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, and ORBIMAGE
From South Carolina to Louisiana, there appear to be a good number of large fires burning in this SeaWiFS image. Sensor: OrbView-2/SeaWiFS. Data Start Date: 2/5/00.
Keywords: Where -- South Carolina; Where -- Louisiana
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| KSC-00PP-0728 - NASA
This aerial photo shows the areas recently opened as part of KSC?s Safe Haven project. The curved road in the center is the newly restored crawlerway leading around the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) and Orbiter Processing Facility 3 (OPF-3) into the VAB high bay 2 (open on the lower right), where a mobile launcher platform/crawler-transporter currently sits. The Safe Haven project will enable the storage of orbiters during severe weather...
Keywords: Where -- Atlantic Ocean; Where -- Louisiana
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| Kriston Erikson learns about the MGM-III experiment - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III) experiment, explains the MGM experiment to Kristen Erickson, acting deputy associate administrator in NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research. A training model of the test cell is at right. The activity was part of the Space Research and You education event held by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research on June 25, 2002, in Arlington, VA, to highlight the resear...
Keywords: What -- STS-107; Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Claudette Comes Ashore - Image courtesy Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On July 15, 2003, at 12:55 EDT, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA’s Terra satellite captured this bird’s-eye view of Hurricane Claudette making landfall at Matagorda Bay on the middle Texas coast. At the time of this image, Claudette was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (129 km per hour) with slightly higher gusts, classifying the storm as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Katrina Floods the Southeastern United States - Image copyright .
The Louisiana Superdome is now an island refuge for as many as 30,000 people, according to news reports. Many sheltered in the stadium while Hurricane Katrina raged overhead on Monday, August 29, 2005, and many more have been brought to the Superdome after being rescued from their flooded homes. The stadium itself was surrounded by flood water when the QuickBird satellite captured this detailed image on August 31...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- United States of America
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| Remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha over Louisiana - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Remnants of Tropical Storm Bertha dumped heavy rains across parts of Louisiana and Mississippi on August 5, 2002. By the time this image was acquired on August 6, 2002, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite, the storm had moved little, and was still lingering over Louisiana (center) and Mississippi (to the east). Sensor: Terra/MODIS. Data Start Date: 8/6/02...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Hurricane Lili over Louisiana - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
This true-color Terra MODIS image shows a Category-2 Hurricane Lili centered over Louisiana (center) October 3rd, 2002. This Level 2 hurricane featured winds of 85 knots (1 knot = 1.15 mph) near the center, though winds at the outer edges could still devastate at even half that strength.As of October 4th, Lili was considered a tropical depression with 30-knot winds, and by the 5th would become extratropical, with 25-knot winds combined with another extratropical low-pressure system.Lili is expec...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- New York
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| Stennis Space Center, State of Louisiana Extend Partnerships - NASA/Stennis Space Center (NASA-SSC)
NASA Stennis Space Center (SSC) Interim Center Director Michael Rudolphi (second from right) presents Louisiana Gov. Mike Foster (second from left) an image from space of the area that comprised the Louisiana Purchase. Gov. Foster and Rudolphi signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between SSC and the state of Louisiana to promote technology transfer partnerships. Also pictured are Charles D'Agostino (left), executive director of the Louisiana Business and Technology Center, and Don Hutchiso...
Keywords: Where -- Stennis Space Center (SSC); Where -- Louisiana
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| Operation Galileo - NASA/Stennis Space Center (NASA-SSC)
The Operation Galileo education program took off with the first of four flights on board a U.S. Air Force C-130 transport aircraft from Keesler Air Force Base, Miss. Teachers from Mississippi and Louisiana participated in the program which aims to enhance math and science education of high-risk students by allowing junior high and middle school teachers, students and parents to fly in cargo and tanker aircraft during routine training missions...
Keywords: What -- Galileo; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Louisiana
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| Subsidence in New Orleans: Image of the Day - NASA -- Image adapted from Dixon et al., 2006.
Most people know that New Orleans has been sinking, but exactly how much has it sunk? In a paper published in the journal Nature, an international team of scientists determined the subsidence (sinking) in New Orleans in the three-year period prior to Hurricane Katrina. The team used data collected by Canada's www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/satellites/radarsat1/default.asp RADARSAT satellite between April 2002 and July 2005...
Keywords: What -- RadarSat; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Tropical Storm Cindy - NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, at NASA GSFC
Tropical Storm Cindy was preparing to make landfall over southeastern Louisiana on July 5, 2005, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer () on NASA’s satellite captured this image. At the time, reported the storm to have winds of 70 miles per hour, just 4 miles per hour under hurricane status. After coming ashore near the mouth of the Mississippi River, Cindy moved northeast, drenching Alabama with rain...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Alabama
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| Hurricane Humberto: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Hurricane Humberto earned its name as a tropical storm on September 12, 2007. Forecasters expected it to intensify only somewhat before hitting the Texas coastline later that day. However, it surprised them by very rapidly intensifying into a www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.shtml Category One hurricane, coming ashore early on September 13 with peak sustained winds near 140 kilometers per hour (85 miles per hour), according to the www.nhc.noaa.gov/index.shtml National Hurricane Center...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Lili: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
Hurricane Lili continues to gain strength and move northwestward toward the Gulf Coast. The center of Lili is located near 24.8 north longitude and 88.9 west latitude, or about 365 miles south-southeast of New Orleans, Louisiana. Lili is moving towards the northwest near 15 mph with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph with higher gusts. This makes Lili a category 3 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale.Terra MODIS data captured by direct broadcast at Louisiana State University and processed at ...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Wisconsin; Where -- Madison
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| Students participate in JASON Project - NASA/Stennis Space Center
Students participate in the JASON Project's 2004-05 expedition, `Disappearing Wetlands' at SSC, conducting field lab experiments and watching live broadcasts from JASON Expedition Louisiana research sites.
Keywords: JASON Project, Disappearing Wetlands; Where -- Louisiana
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| Educator workshops - NASA/Stennis Space Center
Numerous workshops are held each year through the NASA Educator Resource Center to help teachers and educators not only incorporate technology into their classroom, but also aid them in curriculum development. For information concerning workshop schedules, call 1-800-237-1821 in Louisiana and Mississippi or (601) 688-3338.
Keywords: Teacher workshops; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Hurricane Claudette Comes Ashore: Image of the Day - NASA -- Image courtesy Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison www.ssec.wisc.edu/ Space Science and Engineering Center
On July 15, 2003, at 12:55 EDT, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument onboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this bird's-eye view of Hurricane Claudette making landfall at Matagorda Bay on the middle Texas coast. At the time of this image, Claudette was packing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (129 km per hour) with slightly higher gusts, classifying the storm as a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale...
Keywords: What -- Terra; Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Last Shuttle External Tank Arrives at Kennedy
The external fuel tank designated for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission to the International Space Station now is at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for launch preparations. ET-138, the final external fuel tank produced at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, arrived at Kennedy July 13 after its 900-mile water journey from Louisiana. It was towed off its transport barge, Pegasus, and moved into Kennedy's Vehicle Assembly Building on July 14...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; What -- Pegasus; Where -- Florida
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| Hurricane Katrina Floods the Southeastern United States: Natural Hazards - NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
The Louisiana Superdome is now an island refuge for as many as 30,000 people, according to news reports. Many sheltered in the stadium while Hurricane Katrina raged overhead on Monday, August 29, 2005, and many more have been brought to the Superdome after being rescued from their flooded homes. The stadium itself was surrounded by flood water when the QuickBird satellite captured this detailed image on August 31...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- United States of America
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| Khalid Alshibli shows a child MGM apparatus at outreach event - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III) experiment, uses a jar of sand and a training model of the MGM apparatus to explain the experiment to two young Virginia students. The activity was part of the Space Research and You education event held by NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research on June 25, 2002, in Arlington, VA, to highlight the research that will be conducted on STS-107.
Keywords: What -- STS-107; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Virginia
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| Mississippi delta taken by the Expedition Two crew - NASA
View of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana taken by the Expedition Two crew from the International Space Station ISS Alpha.
Keywords: What -- International Space Station ISS; Where -- Louisiana
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| Second Stage (S-II) Acceptance Test - NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
This photograph shows a test firing of a Saturn V second stage (S-II) on the S-IC test stand at the Propulsion Test Facility near New Orleans, Louisiana. This second stage component was used in the unmarned test flight of Apollo 4.
Keywords: What -- Saturn; What -- Apollo 4; Where -- Louisiana
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| Rain Rates Inside Hurricane Lili - Image courtesy Hal Pierce, NASA GSFC Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Branch (Code 912). For more information and other examples of TRMM data, visit the Web site.
large animation Cutaway (11 MB QuickTime)Between 9 and 10 am this morning, the center of Hurricane Lili moved onshore across the western side of Vermillion Bay, Louisiana. Yesterday afternoon, Lili quickly became a forecaster's worst nightmare as the storm began to rapidly intensify, quickly peaking as a Category 4 storm around midnight. But just as suddenly, the storm's intensity decreased during the early morning hours less than 100 miles offshore?weakening to a Category 2 storm just be...
Keywords: What -- Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM); Where -- Louisiana
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| Hurricane Isidore Soaks Mississippi Valley - The images and an earlier version of the text were provided by the AIRS Science Team, which is the focus for the science being done with the three Aqua sounders: the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS), the Humidity Sounder for Brazil (HSB), and the AMSU.
large images: September 12, 2002 (1.3 MB JPEG) September 28, 2002 (1.3 MB JPEG) Difference between September 28th and 12th (390 KB JPEG)The images above are from the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) on board NASA’s Aqua spacecraft. The left image was taken on September 12, about two weeks prior to the landfall of Tropical Storm Isidore along the Louisiana coast, while the image in the middle was taken on September 28, about a day after Isidore made landfall...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Tennessee
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| Fires in the Southern U.S.A. - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, using data obtained courtesy of the team.
Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds combined with holiday fireworks, trash fires, and careless cigarettes to create a disaster in parts of Texas and Oklahoma in late December 2005. According to the Associated Press, more than 70 fires blazed throughout north and central Texas and Oklahoma, many of them set by people ignoring local fire bans. By December 29, nearly 20,000 acres had burned in the region, more than 100 homes had been lost, and several people had died from fire-related inju...
Keywords: Where -- Texas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Arkansas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Tropical Storm Bertha in the Gulf of Mexico - Image courtesy Jesse Allen, NASA Earth Observatory; data provided by at NASA GSFC
Now downgraded to a tropical depression, Tropical Storm Bertha can be seen at full strength in this true-color image taken on August 4, 2002, by the (MODIS), flying aboard NASA?s spacecraft. Originating in the Gulf of Mexico, the tropical storm touched land 20 miles (32 kilometers) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, which is covered by clouds in the above image. The storm continued northeast into Mississippi and Alabama, dumping up to five inches of rain in some areas and generating gusts of up to...
Keywords: Where -- Gulf of Mexico; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Alabama
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| Hurricane Lili - Animation by Robert Simmon, based on data provided by NOAA and archived by the NASA
ÿÿ (1.5 MB MPEG) ÿÿ (4.7 MB MPEG) ÿÿ (175 MB QuickTime)Hurricane Lili made landfall along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on the morning of October 3, 2002. The storm brought ashore heavy rains (more than 10 inches in some places) and 100 mile-per-hour winds throughout most of the day, leaving hundreds of thousands of Louisiana residents without power. By the evening of Oct. 4, the storm was moving northward up the Mississippi River and had weakened into a tropical storm...
Keywords: What -- Visible Light; What -- GOES 8; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Fires Across the Southern U.S. - Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
This image of the south-central United States on February 4, 2003, shows scattered fires (red dots) across the region. The fires are most heavily concentrated at the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The image was acquired by the (MODIS) on the satellite.The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS’ maximum spatial resolution of Sensor: Aqua/MODIS.
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Louisiana
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| Fires and Haze Along U.S. Gulf Coast - NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory, based on data from the Goddard Earth Sciences DAAC.
In Louisiana and other sugarcane-producing states in the Deep South, the burning of the sugarcane fields prior to autumn harvest is a long-standing agricultural practice. Burning eliminates the non-sugar-containing parts of the plants before they are harvested, reducing harvest time and processing costs. Like other open field burning, however, there is a downside to the practice: air pollution. Because of the potential negative health impacts of the particulates and carbon monoxide released duri...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- United States of America; Where -- Mississippi
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| Sediments along Texas Coast and Mexico Coast - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Brightly-colored waters in the Gulf of Mexico indicate the presence of sediment, detritus, and blooms of marine plants called phytoplankton. A few scattered fires were detected as well, and are marked in red in these true-color (MODIS) images from fall 2002. Mexico is at lower left on September 27, then Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. By November, the bloom appears to have subsided everywhere except the Mississippi River Delta (right center edge.) Sensor: Terra/MODIS...
Keywords: Where -- Gulf of Mexico; Where -- Texas; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi
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| Fires in Southern United States - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
This image of the south-central United States on February 4, 2003, shows scattered fires (red dots) across the region. The fires are most heavily concentrated at the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The image was acquired by the (MODIS) on the satellite. Sensor: Aqua/MODIS. Data Start Date: 2/4/03. Data End Date: 2/4/03.
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Louisiana
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| Fires Across the Southern U.S. - Image courtesy Jacques Descloitres, at NASA GSFC
This image of the south-central United States on February 4, 2003, shows scattered fires (red dots) across the region. The fires are most heavily concentrated at the mouth of the Mississippi River in Louisiana. The image was acquired by the (MODIS) on the satellite.The high-resolution image provided above is 500 meters per pixel. The MODIS Rapid Response System provides this image at MODIS’ maximum spatial resolution of Sensor: Terra/MODIS.
Keywords: Where -- United States of America; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Louisiana
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| Tropical Storm Claudette, Gulf of Mexico - Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
This (MODIS) image shows Tropical Storm Claudette looking loosely organized in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana on Monday, July 14, 2003. Though this image shows the outer bands of clouds hanging over the Louisiana coast, the storm was actually headed west. Claudette made landfall over Texas on July 15. Sensor: Aqua/MODIS. Data Start Date: 7/14/03. Data End Date: 7/14/03.
Keywords: Where -- Gulf of Mexico; Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Texas
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| Fires in Southern U.S.A. - Jesse Allen
Drought, high temperatures, and strong winds combined with holiday fireworks, trash fires, and careless cigarettes to create a disaster in parts of Texas and Oklahoma in late December 2005. According to the Associated Press, more than 70 fires blazed throughout north and central Texas and Oklahoma, many of them set by people ignoring local fire bans. By December 29, nearly 20,000 acres had burned in the region, more than 100 homes had been lost, and several people had died from fire-related inju...
Keywords: What -- Aqua; Where -- Texas; Where -- Oklahoma; Where -- Arkansas; Where -- Louisiana
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| Mississippi River Sediment Plume - Image courtesy Liam Gumley, University of Wisconsin-Madison and the
The Mississippi River carries roughly 550 million metric tonnes (500 million tons) of sediment into the Gulf of Mexico each year. This true-color image, acquired from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard NASA’s satellite via direct broadcast on March 5, 2001 at 10:55 AM local time, shows the murky brown water of the Mississippi mixing with the dark blue water of the Gulf two days after a rainstorm...
Keywords: Where -- Mississippi; Where -- Gulf of Mexico; Where -- Louisiana
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| Concentric cumulus cloud system over Southern United States - Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC
Concentric rings of small cumulus clouds appear to be spinning inwards toward a center point located roughly near the border of northeast Louisiana (the boot-shaped state) and Mississippi (to its east). It's possible that there is an area of low pressure near there, as clouds spin counterclockwise around a low pressure center in the northern hemisphere. Several fires (red dots) have been detected by MODIS, mainly along the Mississippi River corridor...
Keywords: Where -- Louisiana; Where -- Mississippi; Where -- United States of America
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